Public Emergency Threatening the Life of the Nation
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Keywords

public international law
human rights law
public emergency threatening the life of the nation

How to Cite

Michalska, A. (2021). Public Emergency Threatening the Life of the Nation. Przegląd Prawniczy Uniwersytetu Im. Adam Mickiewicza, 12, 169–191. https://doi.org/10.14746/ppuam.2021.12.07

Abstract

The paper is an English translation of Niebezpieczeństwo publiczne, które zagraża życiu narodu by Anna Michalska, published originally in Polish in Prawa człowieka w sytuacjach nadzwyczajnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem prawa i praktyki polskiej in 1997. The text is published as a part of a jubilee edition of the “Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review. 100th Anniversary of the Department of Public International Law” devoted to the achievements of the representatives of the Poznań studies on international law.

https://doi.org/10.14746/ppuam.2021.12.07
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Funding

Translated from: A. Michalska, Niebezpieczeństwo publiczne, które zagraża życiu narodu, in: Prawa człowieka w sytuacjach nadzwyczajnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem prawa i praktyki polskiej, red. T. Jasudowicz, Toruń 1997 by Tomasz Żebrowski and proofread by Stephen Dersley and Ryszard Reisner. The translation and proofreading were financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education under 848/2/P-DUN/2018.

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